I read The Road about 6 months ago and was a bit disappointed with the writing style. An interesting premise and an engaging story, but it's dark nature and total lack of hope would be a challenge for Hollywood. Total lack of hope isn't strictly true, in the book the boy does remain optimistic that their encounters with other survivors could still be positive, but I'm not sure that is enough for a typical Hollywood blockbuster formula. The rest of the world and what's left of it's population, is completely devastated. A perpetual winter, everything burned, everything dead, nothing growing, no food, cannibalism, desperation, severe depression and suicide. It'll be interesting to see how they handle it - as a potential screenplay, it has been said to be unfilmable. I can see why. The book makes no attempt to explain the nature of this post apocalyptic world, it's just a treatise on the relationship between father and son laid on a background of death and utter desperation. I wonder if or how they have changed it to make it more palatable for a mass audience? As a drak european arthouse film, I can see it working, but I cant see it fitting in Hollywood without significant directorial and storyline changes. At least they havent got Schwarzenegger and Macaulay Culkin in the leads.
